You will need this licence if your business performs skin penetration procedures. Skin penetration is any process that involves piercing, cutting, puncturing, or tearing of a human body. Businesses requiring a licence include:
- dental practices
- podiatry clinics
- acupuncture clinics
- cosmetic skin clinics
- colonic irrigation clinics
- dry needling practices such as physiotherapists, osteopaths, chiropractors
- beauty salons
- tattoo studios
- body piercing studios
- nail salons
- Hijama clinics
- infusion therapy clinics
- ear-piercing businesses, excluding businesses that only pierce the lower lobe with an apparatus that uses sealed and pre-sterilised disposable fittings
- any mobile practitioner providing any of these services - some business types may be restricted to premises-based.
